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Yehuda Amichai - The School Where I Studied
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I passed by the school where I studied as a boy 
and said in my heart: here I learned certain things 
and didn`t learn others. All my life I have loved in vain 
the things I didn`t learn. I am filled with knowledge, 
I know all about the flowering of the tree of knowledge, 
the shape of its leaves, the function of its root system, its pests and parasites. 
I`m an expert on the botany of good and evil, 
I`m still studying it, I`ll go on studying till the day I die. 
I stood near the school building and looked in. This is the room 
where we sat and learned. The windows of a classroom always open 
to the future, but in our innocence we thought it was only landscape 
we were seeing from the window. 
The schoolyard was narrow, paved with large stones. 
I remember the brief tumult of the two of us 
near the rickety steps, the tumult 
that was the beginning of a first great love. 
Now it outlives us, as if in a museum, 
like everything else in Jerusalem.
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